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United States

No 'time limit' to denuclearize DPRK

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there is no hurry to denuclearize the Democratic People's Republic of Korea under his accord with the country's top leader Kim Jong-un - a shift in tone from when the US leader said the process would start very soon. "Discussions are ongoing and they're going very, very well," Trump said. "We have no time limit. We have no speed limit." Before the Singapore summit on June 12, the US government said denuclearization should start "without delay", and after the meeting, it spoke of the process beginning "very quickly".

Promotion for WWII victim film

An advocacy group in San Francisco is working to promote a Chinese film about comfort women in an effort to raise international awareness of the issue. The film, Great Cold, tells the story of two young sisters who are sexually enslaved by invading Japanese forces in a village in Shanxi province during World War II. In September, another film featuring Chinese comfort women was screened in California. The documentary, Twenty Two, looks at the lives of 22 survivors. The film was originally titled Thirty Two but by the time it was completed, there were only 22 of them left.

Republic Of Korea

Five marines die in helicopter crash

Five marines were killed and one injured when a military helicopter crashed on Tuesday at a marine base, the Defense Ministry said. The helicopter came down and caught fire during a test flight after repairs at the base in the port city of Pohang, it said. An investigation would be launched soon. The helicopter was a domestically made model known as the MUH-1 or Marineon, the country's Yonhap news agency reported.

The Netherlands

Iran files suit over US sanctions

Iran has filed a lawsuit against the United States alleging that Washington's decision in May to impose sanctions after pulling out of a nuclear deal violates a 1955 treaty between the two countries, the International Court of Justice said on Tuesday. A US State Department official said the application was without merit and the US would fight it in the court. The Hague-based court is the United Nations tribunal for resolving international disputes.

Japan

TV ads resume for nuclear plant

The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Wednesday resumed television commercials, seven years after a 2011 meltdown that sparked the world's worst atomic accident in a generation. The decision is controversial, with activists angered that TEPCO is spending on advertising while it remains on the hook for enormous costs stemming from the disaster, including cleanup, decommissioning and compensation payments.

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